Ponte degli Alpini (also: Ponte di Bassano or Ponte Vecchio). Wooden covered Bridge Bridge on the Brenta river. Designed in 1569 by the architect Andrea Palladio to replace a pre-existing construction. The bridge was destroyed in 1748, and was rebuilt three years later. In 1813 it was destroyed by the French troops, and rebuilt; in 1945 by the Italian partisans (to stop the German enemy and to avoid allied bombing of the town) and rebuilt by the Alpini (Bassano del Grappa, Veneto, Italy).